The reason pizza, NOT money, is the key to improving productivity...

Are you struggling to motivate staff? 

If so, then Dan Ariely, a professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and author of the upcoming book ‘Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations’, may have the answer – he has discovered that pizza is a better motivator than money.

In his book Ariely details an experiment conducted at an Intel factory in Israel.

Staff there got one of three messages at the start of the working week detailing an incentive they would receive if they got everything done that day. One offered them a cash bonus (approximately £20), another offered them a compliment from their boss (via text message) and the final one offered them a voucher for free pizza. A quarter of employees – the control group - received no message.